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How Jesus Dealt With Hostility and Enemies

Anita Mathias — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:11:43 +0000

Christ Driving the Moneychangers from the Temple, 1626, Rembrandt It’s the Tuesday of the last week of Jesus’s life. He rampages through the commercialised temple, overturning the tables of moneychangers. He heals, he teaches; he’s hailed as […]

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Do Not Be Afraid, but Do Be Prudent

Anita Mathias — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:58:13 +0000

“Do not be afraid,” a dream-angel tells Joseph, to marry Mary, who’s pregnant, though a virgin, for in our magical, God- invaded world, the Spirit has placed God’s son in her as long foretold by Isaiah. Call the baby Jesus, or The Lord saves, for he will drag people free from the chokehold of their […]

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How to Find Life-Changing Hidden Treasure

Anita Mathias — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:52:23 +0000

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought that field. Matthew 13:44 The Kingdom of God is within you, Jesus says, as he suggests that making him the King […]

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The Spirit Helps Us Speak Creative Words of Energy and Life

Anita Mathias — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 19:29:16 +0000

The Spirit Helps Us Speak Creative Words of Energy and Life Matthew tells us: Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?” Matthew 12: 22-24 […]

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Jesus Promises Us Rest (and an Easy Yoke!)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:10:52 +0000

He was the cleverest human who ever lived, a master of humour, and of literary devices such as paradox, as when he offers the weary and burdened, rest. Rest–by bearing his yoke. Bearing the yoke of Jesus means developing the habit of checking in with him before we speak, act or commit ourselves. For […]

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Do Not Worry About What To Eat: Jesus

Anita Mathias — Wed, 03 May 2023 14:44:22 +0000

“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ […]

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The Power of Christ’s Resurrection. For Us. Today

Anita Mathias — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 19:32:50 +0000

The dawn after the worst day, Mary Magdalene and her friend Mary had seen Jesus, whom they deeply loved— A radiant, beautiful, strong young man Tortured, mocked, and judicially murdered. But as they visit the tomb, they encounter Jesus, Very much alive. Chairete, he says, Rejoice. And then, the very first sentence the risen […]

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Our Unique and Transforming Call and Vocation

Anita Mathias — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:07:45 +0000

We read in the Gospel of Matthew, that as Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon and Andrew, casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him. […]

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Do Not Be Afraid–But Be as Wise as a Serpent

Anita Mathias — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:58:17 +0000

Today’s meditation is on not being afraid, but rather, acting with wisdom. Do not be afraid, the angel in the dream tells Joseph: Marry your fiancée, Mary, who is showing, despite your chaste restraint, for in our magical world, in which angels speak to humans, a virgin has conceived by the Spirit of God, as […]

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Trust: A Message of Christmas

Anita Mathias — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:45:29 +0000

He came to earth in a splash of energy And gentleness and humility. That homeless baby in the barn Would be the lynchpin on which history would ever after turn Who would have thought it? But perhaps those attuned to God’s way of surprises would not be surprised. He was already at […]

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